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ALFRED RICHARD.

DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING BIGTURBS.

No. 399,127. 1 Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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VICTOR BONNET, lllPPOLYlE LISSAGARAY, ARMANI) nioinlian, Atvo ALFRED RIC-HART), or PARIS, cannon.

DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING PICTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,127, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed May 1, 1888. Serial No. 272,468. (No model.) Patented in France December 10, 1887, No. 18,752; in Belgium December 13, 1887, No. 79,897, and in England December 16, 1887,1io. 17,611.

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Be it known that we, VICTOR BONNET, l'llP- I POLYTE Lissi-id-tniw, ARMANI) RICHARD, and ALFRED RICHARD, all citizens of the Repulr lie of France, and all residing at the city of Paris, in said Republic of France, have invented a new and useful Device for Exhibiting Pictures, (for which we have obtained Letters Patent ot' the said Republic of France, No. 18,752, dated December 10, 1887; of Belgium, No. 79,897, dated December 13, 1887, and of England, No. 17,611, dated December 16,

1 887,) of which the following is a specifica tron.

The object of the invention to produce such a device as will more fully and easily exhibit photographs, prints, and pictures to the View of one or more persons upon the dropping of a coin into the cash-box, as hereinafter specified; and the invention consists in the details of combination and construction, substantially as illustrated in the drawings, hereinafter described, and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

Figurel a front view, in elevation, illustrating our new invention for exhibiting pictures. Fig. is a vertical section of the same on a plane parallel to the front view in Fig. 1, and taken upon the line 5 6 of Fig. at. Fig. 3 is aplan section of the same on the line 1 2 of Fig. i. Fig. i is avertical section taken on a plane at right angles to the plane of Fig. 3 and upon the line 3 l of said Fig. 2. Figs. 5 and 6 are other sectional views illustrating a modification of the same invention.

The mechanism of our invention is inclosed within a case. (Designated by e \Vithin this case is journaled ashaft. (Designated by a".) Upon this shaft are mounted a disk-wheel, designated by 0,) and a notched wheel. (Designated by 65'.) Another shaft (designated by 13",) is also journaled within said case. Upon this are mounted the wheels I) and b. The wheel 5 is an ordinary spur-wheel; but the wheel I) has only one tooth, which engages the notches of the wheel Cb. Still another shaft (designated by c) is journaled within said cover. All these shafts are, as illustrated, arranged one above another, 0 being the lowest, and on it are mounted. the pulley 5o 0 and the spur-wheel c, which spur-wheel meshes into the. pinion Z) upon the shaft 32'.

A shaft (designated by (7,) is journaled within the top of the said case. Upon this is mounted the pulley (7. Around this pulley is wound a cord, 6, which, passing over the guide-wheel e, is wound two or three times around the pulley c, and, passing over the pulley e",

is finally tied to the weight 17. A lever (designated by I is pivoted at I. The longer end of this lever 1 is placed directly under the conduit 0. Its shorter end bears on one end of the lever g, which is pivoted at g. To the other end of this lever g is pivoted the lower ends of the upright bar It. The upper end of this bar is pivoted to the bell-crank h h. This bell-crank is pivoted at h, and has a hook on the end of its arm h", which engages the shank of the knob m. This knob, which projects without the said case, is also attached to the wheel. (I and works in the circular slot- (Z At 0 is an opening, into which coins are to be put,which coins are conducted downwardly by the conduit 0. The pictures to be exhibited are arranged radially 7 5 on the disk-wheel a, and are to be seen by the spectatorlooking in at n, where a transparent prism or lens may be placed for that purpose. If the pictures be exhibited in daylight, the illumination maybe made suflicient So by the use of mirrors, but if it be at night a light (designated by 0') may be used for illu1nination. This may be an electric light sustained by the batteries p; or it may be any other light of sufficient strength.

To use this apparatus, the keeper in charge draws the knob m upward in the slotd, so as to bring the various parts into the position illustrated in Fig. 2. Then one of thepictures on the wheel a will be in sight of the observer looking in at n. It, then, a coin be dropped in at o, itwill fall down through the conduit 0' upon the long end of the lever Z. This coin, partly by its weight and partly by its impulse, will cause this end of the lever to tilt downward and the other end to tilt up correspondingly. This releases the lever g, the bar h, and their accompanying mechanism, so

that the weight 1) can pull the cord 6 a little downward. This turns the wheels 0 and 0 upon the shaft c". The wheel 0 turns the wheels Z; and Z) upon the shaft h. The wheel I), with its one tooth engaging a notch of the wheel a, turns it and the disk-wheel a far enough to carry the picture thereon which was in viewout of sight and display another. The operator then pulls up the knob on again, drawing up the weight, replacin the levers, turning the wheels 0, r, I), and h backward, and replacing the mechanism into the position illustrated in Fig. 2. The construction of the wheels a and b is such that when the wheel 1) moves one way its tooth carries the wheel. a forward one notch, which is just far enough to present a new picture for each move, and in moving the other way the tooth of the wheel 17 passes the wheel a without moving it, so that the wheel a and the wheel a. are prompted forward in one direction by the motions of the wheel Z), and so that all the pictures on the wheel. (L will be successively brought into view by dropping in one coin after another. The coins each lime fall off the lever Z into the drawer a".

In Figs. 5 and G a modification of our in vention is illustrated. lly drawing the rail t the cord '21. is pulled, and, acting on the mechanism comprising the bell-crank '2", the cord to, the lever L", the cord 6, and the lever .9, sets a pawl (not here shown) back one notch on the ratchet-wheel c and draws up the weight- 9') a little. As soon as a coin is dropped in it falls down through the conduit 0', drops into one of the pockets q of the wheel q, and causes the wheel to revolve a little. This moves the lovers 0" and W, which, operating upon the rod 8X, lever r, rod 3, leX'er s, and spring it, releases the mechanism, so that the weight p can pull down the corde a little, and, turning the wheel 0, as before described, presents another picture to the spectator. lVhen the coin has fallen out of the wheel g,

the mechanism is returned to its original position by pulling the bar 1, as before described. \Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the case (1*, the disk wheel a, mounted upon a shaft, a, jourualed within said case, the slotted wheel a, mounted upon the same shaft, the one-toothed wheel I), mounted on a shaft, 11'', j ournaled within said case and engaging the slotted wheel a, the wheel I), mounted upon the same shaft with the wheel 1) and meshing into the wheel 0, the wheel 0, mounted upon a shaft, 0-, journaled within said case and meshing into the wheel I), the wheel 0, mounted upon the same shaft with the wheel 0, the shaft d, journaled within said case, the wheel d, mounted upon the shaft d, the cord 6, wrapped upon said wheel (I, extending over the guide-wheel e, journaled in bearings in said case, the pulley c and the guide-wheel e, journaled on bearings in said case and finally attached to the weight 9, and the weight 1'), attached to the cord c within said case, of the conduit 0 within said case, the lever Z, pivoted at Z within said case extending with one end under the conduit 0' to receive coins falling therefrom and engaging the lever g with its other end, the lever g, pivoted at g within said ease, engaging said lever Z, and pivotally attached to the rod 72, the rod 71, attached to said lever g and the bell-crank h, the bell-crank h, pix'oted to h within said case 'and attached to the rod h and the said wheel (I, and the knob m, attached to the wheel (I and moving in a slot, (1*, in said frame a all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

VICTOR BONXET.

HIPPOLYTE LISSAGARAY.

ARMAND RICHARD.

ALFRED RICHARD.

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H0131. M. HooPEn, ALPHONSE BLETRY. 

